1. Antigone Project
Creating a Scene

2. Your Task
In a small group, present one scene from the Greek tragedy, Antigone. Using appropriate costume, action, voice and inflection, present your scene live for your audience (the class).
As a group, you will also put together a director’s notebook, which contains character analysis, staging plan, and marked, edited script.

3. First Step Get to know your characters Look for Motivation
Look for Personalities
Look for Purpose

4. Let’s Meet our Characters
Six Groups—each get one character
Read your character description & the play background on page 251, then fill out the chart on page 249 for your character
Consider your character’s point of view, and write an introduction to your character. Be sure to:
Include background information from the character’s scenario
Provide an explanation that explains the character
Predict how the character’s motivations might conflict with those other characters

5. Welcome to our Meet and Greet! Fill out the rest of your chart.
Tea Party

6. Homework Create a Family Tree for Yourself and then for Antigone
Grandpa
Grandma
Grammy
Papa
Uncle John
Mrs. H
Mr. H
Auntie Tara
Uncle Mark
Katie
Tyghe

7. What is the purpose of a Chorus today?
Do Now
What is the purpose of a Chorus today?

8. Ode
Lyric Poem expressing the feelings or thoughts of a speaker, often celebrating a person, an event, or a thing.
What would a Greek chorus’s ode be about?

9. Chorus reading Get used to the language
Read Chorus 1, one word at a time
Read Chorus Leader 1, a line at a time
Read Chorus 2 with half the class
Read Chorus Leader 2 with other half of class
Read Chorus 3 all together
Volunteer Read Chorus Leader 3
Read Chorus 4 all together

10. So what does it mean 7 groups—each take a section of this ode
Re-write the ode in words we use today
Be prepared to read your re-write as a group

11. Determining Motives by lines

12. Important Vocabulary
Justice Criteria Advance Stress/Inflection Complex character Oral interpretation
Stage directions
Stichomythia
Ode
Dynamic Character
Static Character
Foil

13. Stage Directions & Motivations
Complete questions 1 & 2 (pg. 253) after reading Scene 1 of Antigone on pp
Complete Check Your Understanding
Find and define all the vocab words listed on Page 224.

14. Jeopardy! About the Author It’s a Tragedy Greek Theater
Antigone & Her Family
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